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Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World

Stephen Green

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Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World

Good Value was a Financial Times Book of the Year. Can one be both an ethical person and an effective businessperson? As an ordained priest and former bank chairman, Stephen Green thinks so. In Good Value, Green retraces the history of the global economy and its financial systems, and shows that while the marketplace has delivered huge advantages to humanity, it has also abandoned over a billion people to extreme poverty, encouraged overconsumption and debt, and ravaged the environment. How do we reconcile the demands of capitalism with both the common good and our own spiritual and psychological needs as individuals? To answer that, and some of the most vexing questions of our age, Green takes us on a lively and erudite journey through history, looking for lessons in the work of economists and philosophers, businessmen and poets, theologians and novelists, playwrights and political scientists.

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Publisher
Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9780802197962
Genre
Business & Economics
Topics
Ethics in financeCapitalism and moralityGlobal economy

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